Word: vehement
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...practice rather than under the microscope of a single ruling. "The question this time, if they get past the filibuster, will be whether Pickering is a sound judge. And if you look at his record, he is," says McGinnis. "He hasn't been reversed very often." Pickering has his vehement, albeit occasionally defensive sounding supporters in the Senate, including newly minted Majority Leader Bill Frist, who told Fox News Sunday, "Judge Pickering is a well-qualified judge. The American Bar Association used those words, 'is well qualified...
This fall, D’Alessandro has trotted out several other plans, each one targeting a different slate of schools and drawing crowds of picketing parents. Even Price submitted a drastic plan of his own, which he withdrew after vehement criticism...
...selection of Henry A. Kissinger ’50 to head a panel to investigate pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures may seem an odd one. After all, until recently Kissinger publicly resurfaced from his mysterious consulting firm only for rare press interviews. And despite the complaints of vehement commentators like Christopher Hitchens, who would like to see the former national security advisor and secretary of state indicted for war crimes, Kissinger has largely faded from current public consciousness to become a figure for history books...
...told Cummings a good deal of his past.” But he said the two had only known each other for three months and that they “had never even been intimate.” He admitted attending Roberts’ parties but was vehement in his “absolute denial of any h.s. [homosexual] relations...
...English Department yesterday cancelled a reading by a controversial poet after more than 100 students, alumni and faculty protested his vehement anti-Israeli views...